Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Thanks René and Johannes for two additional suggestions; both work correctly. > Junio, I retried yours and verified my quoting and I confirm it does not work. > > I think I prefer René's suggestion. > > Thanks all, I see what was wrong with my variant. We force IFS to be LF and nothing else upfront, which defeats the attempt to split $variants at SP and turn them into "one token per line" with "printf '%s\n' $variants | ..." In any case, I find René's variant easier to follow, too. Thanks, all.